Good point! Sikhs can keep facial hair (more power to them!)
If so, then everyone else should be able to keep well maintained and clean facial hair
I mean, we are not talking about piercings or tattoos etc that are your choice.
If you are an average guy freaking hair grows on your face when you hit puberty. that is God’s plan!
Now, you can ask me to keep it neat and clean and so on. You can ask me to cover it while preparing food etc. But to ask me to shave it off because it offends you is ridiculous.
Again, differentiate between choices like tattoos and piercings and things that God designed
It is just like nails. You can certainly demand that I keep my nails trimmed and clean but if you suddenly insist I have my nails pulled out of their nail beds cause they offend you, you have another punch coming to your nose
His mother makes the very good point too about all the other unnatural changes from the traditional dress code etc. from the 1950’s. This boy’s basically normal and the article makes him out to be groomed. Even if the beard weren’t groomed, how is their policy on trendy things like dreadlocks? And I get the feeling it’s the healthy display of masculinity (that’s basically limited to those of Caucasian ancestry) that bothers them most, even if they’d never put it into words that way.